Mr Rafendi Djamin

Role:

Trainer

Rafendi Djamin is a specialist in human rights and democracy in Indonesia.

He is the representative of Indonesia to the newly-formed ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), the first regional human rights mechanism in Asia, and the current Chair of AICHR. He also serves as the Coordinator of the Human Rights Working Group (HRWG) a coalition of Indonesian NGO for international human rights advocacy. After completing his master’s degree in Development Studies, Rafendi established an Indonesian human rights lobby organisation (Indonesia’s Forum for Human Dignity), with a wide network in the Indonesian archipelago and in some European cities. For a number of years, he was chair and consultant to INFOHD, an Amsterdam based forum for human rights in Indonesia, which was established to strengthen Indonesian human rights and humanitarian NGOs, by providing expertise on international work and campaigning.

The Diplomacy Training Program (DTP) and partners are calling for applications for a Pacific regional capacity building program for civil society on Business, Human Rights and the SDGs in the Pacific to be held in Fiji from April 30 – May 5, 2018.

Trainers on the program will include Professor Surya Deva, member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights as well as other leading experts and practitioners.

The Diplomacy Training Program (DTP) and JOAS are calling for applications for a regional capacity building program on Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and Partnerships for Sustainable Development to be held in Malaysia in April 04-13, 2018.